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This book contains twelve engaging philosophical lectures given by
Alexandru Dragomir, most of them given during Romania's Communist
regime. The lectures deal with a diverse range of topics, such as
the function of the question, self-deception, banalities with a
metaphysical dimension, and how the world we live in has been
shaped by the intellect. Among the thinkers discussed in these
lectures are Anaxagoras, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, and
Nietzsche. Alexandru Dragomir was a Romanian philosopher born in
1916. After studying law and philosophy at the University of
Bucharest (1933-1939), he left Romania to study for a doctorate in
philosophy in Freiburg, Germany, under Martin Heidegger. He stayed
in Freiburg for two years (1941-1943), but before defending his
dissertation he was called back to Romania for military service and
sent to the front. After 1948, historical circumstances forced him
to become a clandestine philosopher: he was known only within a
very limited circle. He died in 2002 without ever publishing
anything. It was only after his death that Dragomir's notebooks
came to light. His work has been published posthumously in five
volumes by Humanitas, Bucharest; the present volume is the first to
appear in English translation. In 2009, the Alexandru Dragomir
Institute for Philosophy was founded in Bucharest as an independent
research institute under the auspices of the Romanian Society for
Phenomenology.
1798 Bucharest: A magical, dark adventure A year full of intrigue
and political machinations: a slave-chef lives in Bucharest, sought
after by everyone. His cooking is sublime, satisfying even the
sophisticated tastes of the Prince, who steals him from his
rightful owner and installs him in the Palace. However, no one
knows that the chef has in his possession a witch's recipe book:
the Book of Perilous Dishes. The recipes in this magical book can
bring about damaging sincerity, forgetfulness, the gift of
prediction, or hysterical laughter. And the rightful owner of this
book is fourteen-year-old Patca, initiated in the occult arts.
Patca comes to Bucharest, to her uncle, Cuviosu Zaval, to recover
this book, but she finds him murdered and the Book of Perilous
Dishes has disappeared without trace. All that Zaval has left her
is a strange map she must decipher. Travelling from Romania to
France and on to Germany to do so, Patca's family's true past and
powers are revealed, as is her connection to Silica the cook...
This book contains twelve engaging philosophical lectures given by
Alexandru Dragomir, most of them given during Romania's Communist
regime. The lectures deal with a diverse range of topics, such as
the function of the question, self-deception, banalities with a
metaphysical dimension, and how the world we live in has been
shaped by the intellect. Among the thinkers discussed in these
lectures are Anaxagoras, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, and
Nietzsche. Alexandru Dragomir was a Romanian philosopher born in
1916. After studying law and philosophy at the University of
Bucharest (1933-1939), he left Romania to study for a doctorate in
philosophy in Freiburg, Germany, under Martin Heidegger. He stayed
in Freiburg for two years (1941-1943), but before defending his
dissertation he was called back to Romania for military service and
sent to the front. After 1948, historical circumstances forced him
to become a clandestine philosopher: he was known only within a
very limited circle. He died in 2002 without ever publishing
anything. It was only after his death that Dragomir's notebooks
came to light. His work has been published posthumously in five
volumes by Humanitas, Bucharest; the present volume is the first to
appear in English translation. In 2009, the Alexandru Dragomir
Institute for Philosophy was founded in Bucharest as an independent
research institute under the auspices of the Romanian Society for
Phenomenology.
1798 Bucharest: A magical, dark adventure A year full of intrigue
and political machinations: a slave-chef lives in Bucharest, sought
after by everyone. His cooking is sublime, satisfying even the
sophisticated tastes of the Prince, who steals him from his
rightful owner and installs him in the Palace. However, no one
knows that the chef has in his possession a witch's recipe book:
the Book of Perilous Dishes. The recipes in this magical book can
bring about damaging sincerity, forgetfulness, the gift of
prediction, or hysterical laughter. And the rightful owner of this
book is fourteen-year-old Patca, initiated in the occult arts.
Patca comes to Bucharest, to her uncle, Cuviosu Zaval, to recover
this book, but she finds him murdered and the Book of Perilous
Dishes has disappeared without trace. All that Zaval has left her
is a strange map she must decipher. Travelling from Romania to
France and on to Germany to do so, Patca's family's true past and
powers are revealed, as is her connection to Silica the cook...
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